“Decoding a Pictorial Tradition: Images of the Annunciation”
Sunday, December 12, 2 p.m.
In an illustrated presentation, Belmont Curator Joanna Catron traces the depiction of this favorite biblical episode through art history, unlocking the doctrinal symbolism at its core.
Free
“The New Reality: The Frontier of Realism in the 21st Century”
December 4 through February 27, 2011
Organized by the International Guild of Realism, The New Reality not only showcases the latest developments in Realist painting around the world, but compares those artworks with their historical predecessors. Fifty-six artists are represented from the United States, Canada, The Netherlands, Korea, Russia, France, Iceland, Romania, Norway and Finland with close to 60 paintings in a wide variety of media.
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Michelle Crow-Dolby
Mindy J. Erchull, assistant professor of psychology, received the 2010 Mary Roth Walsh Teaching the Psychology of Women Award at the American Psychological Association (APA) convention in San Diego, Calif., in August. The award, sponsored by the Society for the Psychology of Women, recognizes a young faculty member who employs innovative methods to address issues of diversity in teaching the psychology of women. Read the news release at http://www.umw.edu/news/?a=1929. At the APA meeting, Erchull copresented the poster “Whose Orgasm Is It Anyway? Faux Orgasms and Women’s Sexual Subjectivity.” In addition, Erchull and Miriam Liss, associate professor of psychology, presented the poster “Empowerment through Sexualization? The Enjoyment of Sexualization Scale in Feminists” at the meeting.
Liss and Erchull, with a former student, presented the poster “Young Adults’ Ideal and Actual Expectations for Self and Partner Life Trajectories” at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science in Boston in May. Also, Liss and Erchull, with three former students, had two papers published in Psychology of Women Quarterly: “Men Want Equality, but Women Don’t Expect It: Young Adults’ Expectations for Participation in Household and Childcare Chores” and “Well…She Wants It More: Perceptions of Social Norms about Desire for Marriage and Children and Anticipated Chore Participation.”
Yuan-Jen Chiang, professor of mathematics, had a joint research article “Transversal Biwave Maps” published in Achievium Mathematicium. She also presented the paper “Some Properties of Biwave Maps” at the 2010 International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad, India in August.
